Sandra Bullock Biography

Synopsis

Sandra Bullock is an American actress, producer, businesswomen, and philanthropist. Her outstanding performance in the movie The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy earned her wide recognition and the Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Drama.

Sandra Bullock Net worth

Sandra earns the good sum of money in her career. As an actress, she has earned approximately $80 million from the movie Heat and Gravity whereas her salary was around $10 million and $70 million respectively. She received $11 million for her role in the sequel of Speed, $11 million for Hope Floats.

Sandra Bullock Net Worth

Bullock owns property in New Orleans, a mansion in West Coast of the US, Hude Tudor style mansion worth $23 million in Beverly Hills and $2.5 million house in Austin. Additionally, she also owns a cafe and a restaurant in Austin through which she obtains a decent amount of money. As per 2017, it is estimated that her current net worth is around $200 million.

Sandra Bullock Personal life

Sandra has been through little ups and downs in her personal life. Once she was engaged to Tate Donovan, an actor. The couple met during the shooting of Love Potion No. 9 but their relationship lasted for three years only. She also dated actors Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling briefly before getting married to Jesse James.

On 16th July 2005, Sandra Bullock married to Jesse James, motorcycle builder, and Monster Garage host. After five years of marital relationship, she filed divorce and finalized on 28th June 2010.

Though Bullock hasn’t given birth to any child, she adopts two children. Firstly, she adopts a son, Louis Bardo, in 2010, and a daughter, Laila Bullock, in 2015.

Sandra Bullock Early life and Education

Sandra was born on 26th July 1964 in Arlington, Virginia. She was born to father, John W. Bullock, was USA Army, and mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer, was an opera singer and voice teacher, and grew up along with her siblings.

Bullock attended the Washington-Lee High School and graduated in Bachelor of Fine arts in Drama from East Carolina University, in 1982. While achieving bachelor’s degree, she used to perform in different theater production. Besides her academic qualification, she also studied ballet and vocal arts.

Sandra Bullock Career

Sandra worked as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker before starting her acting career. After appearing in numerous movies, she got an opportunities to led in a tv series Working Girl and eventually in the movie Speed which hit the worldwide box office earning $350 million.

Afterward, Sandra featured in several hit movies including The Proposal, Miss Congeniality, Crash, The Blind Side, Razzies, The Heat, Gravity, and much more which earned millions of dollar in box office collection. Forbes had listed her as a most powerful actress in 2014 as well as The Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015.

Beside her acting career, she is also a successful businesswoman. She runs her own production company, Walton’s Fancy and Staple shop, etc. She also had a restaurant, Bess Bistro, located in Austin, which was closed in 2015.

• actress
• American actress
• Businesswomen
• Golden Globe Award
• philanthropist
• producer